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Pre budget positioning for a government that says it is “doing all it can”

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 1:37 pm, May 22nd, 2017 - 10 comments

National does the bare minimum that it thinks it can get away with for those in need. This positioning is just preparing the ground for a budget that does more the same not enough.

The possible privatisation of Ports of Auckland

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:59 am, May 19th, 2017 - 134 comments

The Government is attempting through coercion and cajoling to get Auckland Council to privatise Ports of Auckland.

Suicide, Mike King, and mental health services

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:59 am, May 19th, 2017 - 38 comments

On the issues of suicide and mental health, the choice is pretty clear. Bungling and abuse from National, a positive plan for action from Labour.

Armstrong demolishes Nats on housing

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:13 am, May 18th, 2017 - 28 comments

John Armstrong is not impressed: Government’s handling of housing crisis lurches from chaotic to shambolic

The other conference

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:05 am, May 18th, 2017 - 26 comments

Richard Harman on the Politik blog: “Overall, to use a favourite Government saying, it was an ‘untidy’ weekend capped by a flat speech from English which saw delegates ignore placards they’d been given to wave when he finished speaking.” The B-team is missing John Key.

Sledge of the day

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:03 pm, May 17th, 2017 - 12 comments

Compare two housing plans

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:41 am, May 17th, 2017 - 186 comments

It must be election year, because National has admitted that the market has failed, and swallowed the dead rat of state building. A useful graphic summary in The Herald lets you compare National and Labour’s housing plans…

Nat housing announcement – far too little far too late

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:16 pm, May 16th, 2017 - 83 comments

Useful but – mostly re-announcing existing developments, far too little, far too late, and open to property speculators…

National’s long history of intimidation

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:27 am, May 16th, 2017 - 37 comments

It isn’t just third term arrogance. Ngaro is merely the latest example of National’s long history of attacking, intimidating, and trying to silence critical voices and facts. Take a stroll with me down memory lane…

National’s messy Israel position

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, May 16th, 2017 - 20 comments

National’s shifting position on Israel suggests all is not happy within National’s ranks.

Ngaro’s “apology” and National’s third term arrogance

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:13 am, May 16th, 2017 - 23 comments

Lloyd Burr has some more quotes from Ngaro before he was forced to apologise, and Stuff writes on the Nats third term arrogance.

Alfred Ngaro reprimanded for being “naïve”

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:54 am, May 15th, 2017 - 53 comments

Alfred Ngaro has apologised to the Prime Minister for threatening the funding of voluntary organisations critical of the Government, not for expressing the views or even thinking them but for being naïve.

National threatens Government critics with loss of Government contracts

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:31 am, May 14th, 2017 - 78 comments

Alfred Ngaro has told a National Conference that critics of the Government can expect to lose Government support for proposed contracts. And that Labour prompted concern about families living in cars.

How much information is being withheld from us?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:13 am, May 13th, 2017 - 13 comments

Covering up inconvenient truths is an old pattern for this government. What percentage of their effort goes in to obfuscating and hiding the facts?

There is no housing problem!

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:25 am, May 11th, 2017 - 19 comments

But only in Nick Smith’s head. See the finally released government Housing Affordability Measure (HAM).

Mental health problems are a figment of our imagination and the work of anti government protesters

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:33 am, May 10th, 2017 - 17 comments

according to Health Minister Jonathan Coleman

Seymour on Nat properties and policy

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:07 am, May 10th, 2017 - 28 comments

Right place wrong reason

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:33 pm, May 9th, 2017 - 14 comments

Photo: M Wilson

Chester Borrows in court

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:51 am, May 8th, 2017 - 74 comments

With the Eminem case on the go too its a busy time in court for National.

Still spinning “social investment”

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:04 am, May 7th, 2017 - 36 comments

Directing welfare spending where it will do most good makes sense. But let’s make sure that that is what it is, not an excuse to simply cut funding, stigmatise, and target “undesireables”. National’s record does not inspire confidence, to say the very least. Then there’s the hypocrisy…

Fuck the homeless

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:11 am, May 6th, 2017 - 187 comments

Those compassionate conservatives of the National Party have a message for the increasing number of homeless who occupy our Brighter Future.

NRT: This is why we can’t have nice things

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:09 pm, May 5th, 2017 - 11 comments

I/S highlights National’s new net debt target of 10-15% of GDP – and specifically, what it will cost us.

Brownlee as Foreign Minister as successful as you’d expect

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 12:16 pm, May 5th, 2017 - 77 comments

Brownlee’s run as Foreign Minister is already a mess. Such is the depth of National’s talent pool.

NRT: Inflation and poverty

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:13 pm, May 4th, 2017 - 8 comments

I/S at No Right Turn writes: “The CPI is out today, and it shows that the poor are getting poorer … This is a long-term trend. Since National took office, inflation for poor households has been nearly twice that of rich households.”

Bill English doesn’t get it – literally doesn’t get it – how messed up the “Brighter Future” is

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:30 am, May 4th, 2017 - 55 comments

“There are approximately 92,700 Kiwis aged between 15 and 24 who aren’t working, in education or training. That’s up 19 percent during National’s time in power, and Prime Minister Bill English admits he’s not sure why.” Could it be because…

Protecting our biggest export income earner

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:03 am, May 2nd, 2017 - 51 comments

Tourism Export Council: “The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) in its current form is nothing more than a PR-stunt from Government who continue to ignore scientists and expert opinion re the state of our freshwater. The NPS-FM does not address the serious problems facing our waterways and, in fact, will make them worse.”